Theatre Reviews
Aristocrats, Donmar Warehouse review - fresh but unevenFriday, 10 August 2018
Chekhovian is a rather over-used word when it comes to describing some of the late Brian Friel's best work, but you can see why it might apply to Aristocrats, his 1979 play which premiered at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin before becoming a contemporary classic. You can count off the elements that remind you of the Russia master: decaying estates, feckless toffs, wistful longings and missed opportunities. Read more... |
Homos, or Everyone in America, Finborough Theatre review - a complex pattern of glee and profundityFriday, 10 August 2018
I’m still not entirely sure what the full associations of the title of New York playwright Jordan Seavey’s new play – its second element, at least: the first speaks for itself – may be, but with writing this accomplished any such uncertainties fall away. Read more... |
Edinburgh Festival 2018 reviews: Underground Railroad Game / On the ExhaleFriday, 10 August 2018
Underground Railroad Game ★★★★★ Read more... |
Edinburgh Festival 2018 reviews: Coriolanus Vanishes / Check Up: Our NHS at 70 / A Sockful of CustardWednesday, 08 August 2018
Coriolanus Vanishes ★★★★ Read more... |
Silk Road (How To Buy Drugs Online), Trafalgar Studios review - Geordie chancer comes of ageWednesday, 08 August 2018
The Dark Web has an intriguing sound about it. Like something out of JRR Tolkein or JK Rowling, it suggests a netherland peopled by strange creatures, and maybe even dangerous monsters. As indeed it is. Read more... |
£¥€$ (LIES), Almeida Theatre review - financial frolics at the gaming tableMonday, 06 August 2018
Theatre critics tend not to experience an 140 percent increase in their financial assets within 21 minutes. So on that remarkable front alone, the London premiere of the Belgian £¥€$ (LIES) is giddily immersive fun, at least up until such time as the Ontroerend Goed production shifts gears and sends the financial world, and our momentary prosperity, crashing down. Read more... |
Edinburgh Festival 2018 reviews: Ulster American / Cold BloodMonday, 06 August 2018
Ulster American ★★★★★ Read more... |
The Importance of Being Earnest, Vaudeville Theatre review - Sophie Thompson triumphantly tackles the handbag challengeFriday, 03 August 2018
Any actor playing Lady Bracknell must dread the moment when she (or, indeed, he) has to deliver that unforgettable line about a significant piece of hand luggage. Since Edith Evans's wavering, vibrato, multi-syllable version of "a handbag?", audiences have waited to see how it will be dealt with this time. Read more... |
Othello, Shakespeare's Globe review - André Holland shines, Mark Rylance pursues laughsThursday, 02 August 2018
Claire van Kampen has a history of providing roles for her husband, Mark Rylance. He starred in her critically acclaimed Farinelli and the King three years ago, and now she directs him as Iago in the Globe's production of Othello, with Moonlight actor André Holland as the eponymous general. Read more... |
Home, I'm Darling, National Theatre review - Katherine Parkinson in career-best formWednesday, 01 August 2018
Add Katherine Parkinson to the top rank of theatre performers in a town where talent abounds. Read more... |
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Direct from a sold-out season at Kiln Theatre the five star, hit play, The Son, is now playing at the Duke of York’s Theatre for a strictly limited season.
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Written by the internationally acclaimed Florian Zeller (The Father, The Mother), lauded by The Guardian as ‘the most exciting playwright of our time’, The Son is directed by the award-winning Michael Longhurst.
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